On March 23, 1842, Henry David Thoreau wrote the following rhetorical question in his journal: "What could be more dignified than to browse the tree-tops with the camelopard?"
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Giraffe: Two Quotations
In his Dictionary (1755) Samuel Johnson identified a camelopard (a giraffe) as "An Abyssinian animal, taller than an elephant, but not so thick. He is so named, because he has a neck and head like a camel; he is spotted like a pard, but his spots are white upon a red ground. The Italians call him giraffa. Trevoux." (In his Dictionary Johnson defined a pard as "The leopard . . . ")
On March 23, 1842, Henry David Thoreau wrote the following rhetorical question in his journal: "What could be more dignified than to browse the tree-tops with the camelopard?"
On March 23, 1842, Henry David Thoreau wrote the following rhetorical question in his journal: "What could be more dignified than to browse the tree-tops with the camelopard?"
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